Prep Track: Byron’s Kelsey Hildreth wins state indoor 3200

Saturday

Mar 29, 2014 at 9:15 PMMar 29, 2014 at 9:15 PM

Rockford Register Star

Byron senior Kelsey Hildreth showed her heels to the rest of the state, winning the Class 1A girls indoor 3200 meters in 10 minutes, 49.20 seconds Saturday at the Illinois Top Times track meet in Bloomington.

Hildreth won by a whopping 23 seconds over runner-up Adrienne Brauer of Porta in what is regarded as the indoor state track meet.

Dixon brought home a pair of titles in Class 2A. Lexy Duncan dominated the girls long jump, winning by eight inches with a leap of 18 feet, 3.25 inches and Simon Thorpe won the boys 1600 by five seconds in 4:20.76. Dixon’s Cody Songeroth was second in the 3200 in 9:46.93.

Also in the Class 2A girls: Boylan’s Kelsey Person, Erica Lowry, Kristina Kladar and Delaney Appino took fifth in the 3200 relay in 9:56.22; Rockford Christian’s Payton Jones qualified 12th and missed the finals in the 60 meters in 8.11; and Freeport had Ellie Willging finish fourth and sixth in the 3200 and 1600, Lakonka Collins sixth in the 400, Kyliah Hughes ninth in the shot put and Ashley Simmons missed the 60 finals by finishing 23rd in qualifying.

Winnebago and Dixon had the only locals in the Class 2A boys. Winnebago’s Nathan Ambrose, Jeff Swanson, Allan Daly and Nolan Peterson took sixth in the 1600 relay in 3:32.10, while Chris Smith took ninth in the shot put (47-6) and Ian Klindera didn’t clear the opening height in the pole vault. For Dixon, Kylian Lally was fifth in the 400 in 52.27 and JD Gieson eighth in the long jump at 20-1.5. Dixon also took ninth in the 1600 relay and 11th in the 3200 relay and Reid Deets, who qualified 20th, and Gieson, who qualified 10th, failed to place in the 60 meters and 60 hurdles, respectively.

In Class 1A girls, Lutheran’s Claire Mesa was seventh in the 800 (2:26.99), while Byron had Paige Holloway take ninth in the high jump (5-0), Megan Headley finish 10th in the 200 (27.66) and the Tigers’ 800, 1600 and 3200 relay teams place ninth, 12th and 13th.

In Class 3A girls, Hononegah’s Patrice Jones was fifth in the 200 (26.32) and sixth in the 400 (59.81), while Jefferson’s Kendra Moreno was ninth in the pole vault (9-3). East’s De’Khja Cross-Hardy (16th) and Tamera O’Neal (20th) failed to qualify for the finals in the 60 meters and 60 hurdles, respectively.